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Trego County, Kansas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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8historic places

—earliest paper

1867formed

2,808pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1985. Most listings are in or near Collyer, Wa Keeney, WaKeeney.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Kansas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Trego titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Collyer Downtown Historic District	Collyer	Building	2010
Keraus Hardware Store	WaKeeney	Building	2023
Lipp Barn	Collyer	Building	2009
St. Michael School & Convent	Collyer	Building	2008
Stradal House	Wa Keeney	Building	2001
Trego County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building	Wa Keeney	Building	2004
Walsh Archeological District	Collyer	District	1985
Wilcox School-District 29 & District 14 (Additional Documentation)	Ransom	Building	2006

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Trego was formed in 1867 (1867-02-26) from unknown / original county.

TREGO created from Non-County Area 2 attached to RILEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Trego County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
166	2,535	2,722	5,880	5,822	5,868	5,473	4,165	3,319	2,808

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Christ the King Catholic Cemetery	39.01666	-99.87044
Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery	38.88057	-99.74428
Kansas Veterans' Cemetery at Wakeeney	39.01818	-99.87343
Ogallah Cemetery	38.9926	-99.7243
Saint Michael's Cemetery	39.03158	-100.11537
Saline Valley Cemetery	39.11767	-99.96162
Union Cemetery	39.03013	-100.11239
Union Cemetery	None	None
Wakeeney City Cemetery	39.01622	-99.87373
Zion Lutheran Cemetery	38.87813	-99.89274

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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